Fishing near Arlington in Middlesex County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill, Common Carp
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 227
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 1957
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Horn Pond
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Hardy Pond
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Recent Arlington Fishing Reports

Hill's Pond Scouting Fishing Report Aug 27, 2010

Hill's Pond Scouting

Hill's Pond, Menotomy Rocks Park, Arlington, MA -

Took the kids over to Hill's Pond in Arlington today for their first time fishing. Spent lots of time re-hooking worms and untangling lines, so to...

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Hills Pond, Menotomy Rocks Park, Arlington 8-14-09 Fishing Report Aug 14, 2009

Hills Pond, Menotomy Rocks Park, Arlington 8-14-09

Hills Pond, Menotomy Rocks Park, Arlington MA -

I stopped by Menotomy Rocks Park in Arlington on the way home from work to enjoy the weather a bit. After a quick walk around Hills Pond and seeing m...

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Big bass and a bunch of kooks Fishing Report Jun 28, 2014

Big bass and a bunch of kooks

Fished a small pond that is basically a swamp this time of year. Thick weeds everywhere! It's hard to throw anything but a frog, so I started wi...

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Shigellosis or toxic Microcystis cyanobacteria algae? Fishing Report Aug 22, 2009

Shigellosis or toxic Microcystis cyanobacteria algae?

Spy Pond, Arlington MA -

Well, the plan today was to take the family up to Sandy Beach (also called Shannon Beach) in Winchester to have lunch and swim and I would get some ti...

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Spent a couple hours at Spy Pond today... Fishing Report Aug 30, 2011

Spent a couple hours at Spy Pond today...

Spy Pond, Arlington, MA -

Would have been a great day to teach some newbs how to fish. The little ones were biting everything I threw. Didn't manage to set on all of them...

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6/25/08 Fishing Report Jun 25, 2008

6/25/08

Spy Pond -

Very slow night, no fish but I wasn't there long. I'm gonna do some Carping over here soon I think....

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Baits and Tackle used near Arlington

Check Prices

  • 4" Senko, watermelon/red flake 2/0 hook
  • Spinner bait and stick worm
  • Jitterbug
  • swimsenko on a jig head
  • Skippyfish
  • Live shiners about a foot off the bottom entice lots of strikes
  • 5" Senko
  • SkippyFish, Senko
  • Senkos
  • jitterbug; 3" floating repala.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
  • Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.
  • Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • SEAWORMS
  • Live eels
  • worm
  • slug
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • live mackerel

Tube Check Prices

  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • use small tube
  • Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
  • tube dark...
  • white tube
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
  • Tube and huge sea worms
  • minitube flourescent
  • T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
    White Ice Zoom Small tube
    White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook

Creature Check Prices

  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • Green pumpkin sweet beaver
  • 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
  • My other 5 were:
    2lb 2oz
    two 1-1/2lbers
    two 1lbers
  • Creature Bait on Shakey Head
  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
  • Orange Pumpkin Yama creature... my go-to soft plastic

Minnow Check Prices

  • Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.

    Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
  • Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
  • Dead minnows
  • 2lb 9oz
    1-1/2lbs
    3-3/4lbs
  • 1st was 3lb 6oz
    2nd was about 1lb
  • One 2lber
    Two 1-3/4lbers
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
  • Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
  • 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
    2nd was 15in
  • 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
  • 1st was 1lb 4oz
    2nd was 10in

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Zara Spook.
  • 3/8 oz Hulla Popper
  • Zara spook and jitterbug
  • 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
  • BPS Popper, Texas special color.
  • Top water rappala, and a rooster tail spinner.
  • 3/8 oz. jointed, black Jitterbug. Heavy test, mono leader tied onto braid.
  • Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger
  • I use frogs, senko, spinnerbaits. jigs. Just about anything will work here if u know what your doing. And have the tackle to get ém out the cabbage cuz its thick and so are they.
  • Hula Popper

Lizard Check Prices

  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • green w/ red fleck
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • Red/Red
  • 8" Pumpkinseed
  • Baby bass lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
  • Senko
  • 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
  • 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.
  • Senko.
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
  • 1st was 13" 1lb
    2nd was 6"
  • 6" on inline spinner
    3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms
  • Joes fly
  • Green Popper Frog Fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Brown/Gold w/Red
  • White spinner bait, willow leaf style blades. Thrown into herring pods on lower lake
  • Chartruese w/Red Spinnerbait
  • same as before
  • White spinnerbait
  • 3/8 oz. Booyah Counter Strike Spinnerbait (gold, willow leaf, white/chartreause).
  • Chartreuse spinnah
  • 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
  • White, double silver blade
  • White spinner bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • yellow paddle tail frog. we saw a break in the water and knew there was a good fish. hit it a few times till he got him to take it.
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
  • 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
    1lber on Frog at Heard
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm
  • Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala Original Silver
  • Jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
    2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
    3rd was 8in
  • Rapala F05 BCF
    Rebel minnow F07 Silver
  • Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
  • pumkin stick bait, yumm
  • Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
    3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
  • rapala
  • Trolling main channel

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • 1st. 4in
    2nd. 5in
    3rd. 7in
    4th 7in
  • 3 on a 1/8oz Rooster Tail
    7 1/2in, 9in, and 10.25in
  • 1st. 8in
    2nd. 6in
  • All Between 7 an 8 inches
  • 1st. 7in
    2nd. 8in
  • Two 7in'ers
  • I couldnt believe this Sally could even bite the hook, lol. So small!!
  • 1st. 9in
    2nd. 8in
    3rd. 4in
  • 4" and 5" Sunfish

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Sabiki rig, white
  • shad darts

Worm Check Prices

  • 19 - KVD Strike King finesse worms.
    2 - floating Rapala
  • 4" Senko, watermelon red flake.
  • 4" YUM watermelon / white
  • 5" wacky, blue
  • Caught the big guy on a Berkley powerbait 10' powerworm, Rigged texas with a 1/4 oz bullet sinker to penatrate the thick stuff. Also caught one on a spook,walkin the dog
  • Gary Yamamoto Senko in Pumpkinseed, rigged Texas.
  • Gary Yamamoto Yamasenko. 5" black with red fleck
  • Worms and tubes all rigged weedless to get int pads
  • Senko
  • Wacky rigged Green Pumpkin 5" senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • xps swimbait
  • Storm shad mullet color

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
    2 on Rooster Tail
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
  • Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 12in 7oz
    3rd was 10in
    4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
  • 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
  • My Biggest 2lb 13oz, followed by a couple 1-1/2lber, a couple 1lbers, and the rest were runts. Mostly shallow cranks, some jig, and senko too.
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot

    Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)

  • Chatterbait, Swimbait, Jig, Dropshot
    My Limit was 2lb 6oz, 2lb 5oz, 1lb 11oz, 1lb 7oz, and 1lb 6oz

    what didn't make the cut:
    two 1lb 6oz
    half a dozen between 1-1/4lb & 1lb
    one 14oz
    one short
  • 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
    The rest were in the 8"-11" range
  • Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
    1st was a little over a 1lb
    2nd was 12"
    3rd was 2lbs 2oz
  • Drop Shot
  • Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
  • Dropshot
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
    3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • .

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.
  • 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.
  • first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
  • Rooster Tail
  • Rooster Tail
    Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rapala F-7 Original Silver
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rooster tail
  • Biggest fish on a Strike King Bluegill Swim Jig
    One on Sexy Shad 4S crankbait
    One on Natural Frog Zara Spook
    Four on Pearl Zoom Salty Super Fluke
  • Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.

Craw Check Prices

  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
  • Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
  • Yum black/blue craw
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
  • Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • crawdads and soft frogs

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • SPRO BBZ1
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
  • trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

  • metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

  • Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
  • 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
  • Ice Jig
  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

    Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
  • 11" on Shaky Head
    15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
  • Our Limit was :
    My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz

    1lb and under on the rest
  • jig n pig

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Strike King Pro Series 1
  • Strike King bright yellow minnow
  • Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
  • Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad
  • Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
  • Rapala Original Floating Minnow
  • Strike King Pro Series 4S - Sexy Shad
  • Rat-l-trap
  • 2 inch minnow shallow diver yellow perch pattern
  • Lipless crankbait rat-l-trap.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Boag Hog Brush Jig
  • 3/8 ounce green pumpkin Boag Hog Baits jig that I added rattles to and a black/redflake chigger craw trailer
  • same jig as before
  • 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
  • And Senko
    Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
  • Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
  • Jig and pig in the bushes and trees
  • Pitched a war eagle flippin jig to a sweet wall that always holds bass
  • SENKO CLEA/ORANGE
  • JIG N PIG
    4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
    WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Lake fork magic shad
  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
  • Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • Berkeley GULP!

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Wolly Bugger
  • Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
  • White Wooly bugger
  • White wooly bugger
  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • gold little cleo
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • night crawler on a float
  • live worm on float
  • Kids materials
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
  • night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
  • we used live worms it worked very well
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • rattler
  • Greyish, green, red face
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back

Herring Check Prices

  • Herring Chunk

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight
  • Clams
  • Calms

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!
  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
  • Popper Fishing
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • Popper fishing

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • chartruce and whit chatter bait
  • I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Dropshot
  • Dropshotting
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Berkley White Grub.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Fresh Cut Pogies
  • Seaworms
  • Sea Worms
  • Dough Ball
  • white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

  • KVD 1.5, Senkos in black with red flake as well as shad colored.
  • None.
  • SENKO GREEN
  • Crust of french bread so it will float
  • french bread crust, sitting about 6 inches below the surface
  • Natural Berkley Honey worm
  • Got one on the mop jig just across the current. Got another on the buzzbait a little further out. Got a couple of shorts.
  • Powerbait
  • White Berkely Honey worm
  • Chartreuse power bait. Slip rig with a one once egg sinker and about two feet of leader.

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